Late-night comedian Jay
Leno, and Winston Cup Champion Jeff Gordon were both at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30th to unveil plans for
Leno to drive the pace car for the Brickyard 400.

"It's probably easier to
teach him how to be a race car driver than it would be for
me to be a comedian," Gordon quipped.

Gordon, a two time winner of
the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, helped Chevrolet make the
announcement that Leno would be driving a Monte Carlo to
pace the field. After the announcement, the two went
joy-riding around the 2.5 mile superspeedway with Leno at
the wheel and Gordon in the passenger seat.

"Jay has a lead foot, let me
just say that," said Gordon. "We were doing 120 down the
backstraight, and I was like 'Okay, he's going to slow
down...Jay, you're going to slow down...JAY, JAY, you're
going to slow down?'"

"He kept trying to brake on
the floor, so I don't know," said Leno of Jeff Gordon. "He's
a horrible passenger. He's always whining, complaining,
changing the radio station."

Gordon did get the last
word, however.

"We have a head and neck
restraint that we wear out there, and we call it the HANS
device. We're going to get Jay a HANCH device - a head, and
neck, and chin device."